"mortinatality"

(445.26-447.21)  As his sermon continues, Shaun shifts away from his offensive against Isabel's imagined lover and turns toward a kind of daydream.  He says that he will return from overseas a "nuncio."  While he's away, he'll think of Isabel "with deepest of love and recollection by rintrospection," for, as he says, "a big corner fill you do in this unadulterated seat of our affections."  Upon his return, he intends to take her as his lover:  "Aerwenger's my breed so may we uncreepingly multipede like the sands on Amberhann!"  If he's proved to Isabel's "sallysfashion" that he's "a man of Armor" (both a tough man of war and a tender man of amour, or love), he'd like to see her "isabellis" (the body of Isabel, including her belly . . . McHugh notes this word coincides with the French "déshabillé," which translates to "undressed," further cementing the fact that Shaun wants to see Isabel naked).  If he survives his trip, Shaun continues, he'll take her hand in his and cover her checks with "zuccherikissings."  With the two thus united, he says, "you will be there and then, in those happy moments of ouryour soft accord, rainkiss on me back, for full marks with shouldered arms."

"Slim ye, come clum with me and rally rats' roundup!" says Shaun, as he begins to explain how his union with Isabel will revolutionize Ireland.  "'Tis post purification we will, sales of work and social service, missus, completing our Abelite union by the adoptation of fosterlings."  The two will "pull of our working programme" and "circumcivicise all Dublin country."  Shaun is apparently already eager to memorialize his unrealized deeds, for he tells the girls, "Write me your essayes, my vocational scholars, but corsorily, dipping your nose in it, for Henrietta's sake, on mortinatality in the life of jewries and the sludge of King Haarington's at its height, running boulevards over the whole of it."  I like the word "mortinatality," for in mingling "mortality" and "natality," it encompasses death and birth and, by implication, all of human experience.  (McHugh also notes that Sir John Harington came up with the idea for a toilet, which also incorporates a universal human experience of sorts.)

The remainder of today's passage (and it looks like at least the very beginning of tomorrow's) consists of subjects Shaun would like the girls/vocational scholars to cover.  "I'd write it all by mownself if I only had here of my jolly young watermen," Shaun notes (for those like me who were in the dark, McHugh points out that a Waterman is a type of pen).  Initial subjects of interest to Shaun include cleaning the streets and the exploits of various religious orders ("the Mirist fathers' brothers," "White Friars," and "them caponchin trowlers").  More to come tomorrow.